Name: Nomusa Makhubu

Title: Associate Professor in Art History, University of Cape Town

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Pronouns: She/Her

Email address: nomusa.makhubu@uct.ac.za

Languages: English

Areas of research: Art History

Biography: Nomusa Makhubu is a mother, teacher and an artist who founded Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) – a open access platform for socially responsive arts based at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Having grown up during the most violent and final stages of apartheid in South Africa, she sought to work towards understanding how the arts, as a public good, can be a catalyst for radical civic engagement. Her interest in social justice is reflected in her work as the Deputy Dean for Transformation in the Humanities Faculty at UCT (2020-2022). To shift from traditional academic publishing, Makhubu collaborated with Nkule Mabaso to publish Creative Books which were translingual multimodal publications. Also with Mabaso, she has co-curated exhibitions (including a co-curation of the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy). For her artwork, she was the recipient of the ABSA L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award in 2006. As a scholar, she received the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) African Humanities Program fellowship award and was selected to be an African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential fellow in 2016. In 2017, she was a UCT-Harvard Mandela fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research.